Optical Emotions is a companion app that helps you explore the mental models that shape how you perceive and react to the world. Using a Mental Models Self-Assessment Quiz, Optical Emotions identifies your predominant thinking patterns and highlights behaviors tied to those models. The app also offers practical mental model disablers and a curated set of exercises based on emotional intelligence to help you intentionally shift unhelpful responses. If you’re reading the book Optical Emotions: Eight Mental Models Through Which We Perceive the World or simply curious about self-discovery, this app provides tools to turn insight into everyday practice.
Key Features
⭐ Mental Models Self-Assessment Quiz with slider controls—rate each statement from 1 to 10 to reveal which models guide your thinking and actions.
⭐ Clear results summarizing the three predominant mental models, their typical patterns, and how they influence decisions.
⭐ Mental model disablers: instant, practical strategies to disengage from unhelpful reactions and break automatic habits.
⭐ Exercises to enhance and upgrade mental models using emotional intelligence techniques that help reframe narratives and responses.
Advantages
✅ Boosts self-awareness by making invisible thinking patterns visible and describable.
✅ Offers concrete strategies (disablers) to interrupt counterproductive behaviors in real time.
✅ Structured exercises translate insight into practice, supporting lasting change in perspective.
✅ Designed to complement the reading experience of the book Optical Emotions, deepening comprehension and application.
Disadvantages
❎ Not a substitute for professional mental health support or personalized therapy when deeper issues exist.
❎ Requires regular reflection and practice; benefits depend on user engagement rather than being automatic.
❎ Content centers on the eight mental models presented in the related book and may not cover every psychological framework.
